Individual Assignment #1 (Read up to start of Part 3)
1. Major Characters:
Liesel Meminger
Narrator (The Shadow of Death)
Hans Hubermann
Rosa Hubermann
Rudy Steiner
Minor Characters:
Liesel's brother and mother
Frau Heinrich
Grave Digger
Liesel's soccer friends (except Rudy Steiner)
Mrs. Hubermann's bosses
Rudy's Father
Sister Maria
The two kids Liesel beat up
Minor Characters affecting Main Characters:
*Frau Heinrich affects the Hubermanns because she helps the foster parents run the foster care. Frau is the foster care lady who helps around the house. She also affects Liesel because Frau will be the one, mainly, taking care of Liesel.
*The grave digger affects Liesel because this person dropped the book letting Liesel know about books. This is when she gains an interest in books and becomes the book thief.
*Liesel's brother affects her because he was her brother.
*Liesel's mother affects her greatly because she left Liesel behind in an orphanage. She could not care for Liesel anymore, so now she would not have a real mother to comfort her.
*Mrs. Hubermann's bosses affect Rosa because her bosses affect how much income she gets to help support her family.
2. Decisions I Disagree With:
Liesel's mother just dumped her nine year old daughter in a strangers car. Then, she went on and left her alone in a car with those strangers. Even in desperate times, I would have been with my daughter the whole time until I had to leave. I would have also tried to explain to my daughter as best as I could why I was leaving her at the foster care. Leaving your daughter with strangers at a young age without explaining your reason simply is not right!
Rosa Hubermann doesn't have a perfect record either. She treats Liesel as a little insignificant slave because she made her clean spit off the doorstep and do her work in her laundry business. I think that is no way to treat a nine year old girl! Liesel should also be nurtured in well behaved environment, and not living with an insane foster mother who says swears almost everything she says.
Hans Hubermann has not been a very good "father" to Liesel in the way Rosa treats her. He has never stood up for her when she was being treated like a rag from Rosa Hubermann. I would understand a little why he would be afraid to stand up against Rosa, but even so Liesel is young and should not be treated in that sort of way. I am glad though he teaches reading and writing to her. Even though he is not the best himself, I am glad there was one thing Hans and Liesel do together without much interruption.
3. How this story change my thinking:
This story has changed my thinking a little bit about the Holocaust. I did not realize how the parents had to find creative ways to explain to their young children about the events happening around them. It must have been tremendously hard to see a young child confused and you could not really explain what was going on without totally alarming the child.
Interesting comment! You're right. How much information is too much? You want to be honest, but you also don't want the child to be confused and alarmed. It was enough to live with a stranger in the basement and the fear of being caught. Many of these children had to grow up way too quickly.
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1. Major Characters:
Minor Characters:
Minor Characters affecting Main Characters:
*Frau Heinrich affects the Hubermanns because she helps the foster parents run the foster care. Frau is the foster care lady who helps around the house. She also affects Liesel because Frau will be the one, mainly, taking care of Liesel.
*The grave digger affects Liesel because this person dropped the book letting Liesel know about books. This is when she gains an interest in books and becomes the book thief.
*Liesel's brother affects her because he was her brother.
*Liesel's mother affects her greatly because she left Liesel behind in an orphanage. She could not care for Liesel anymore, so now she would not have a real mother to comfort her.
*Mrs. Hubermann's bosses affect Rosa because her bosses affect how much income she gets to help support her family.
2. Decisions I Disagree With:
3. How this story change my thinking:
- This story has changed my thinking a little bit about the Holocaust. I did not realize how the parents had to find creative ways to explain to their young children about the events happening around them. It must have been tremendously hard to see a young child confused and you could not really explain what was going on without totally alarming the child.
Interesting comment! You're right. How much information is too much? You want to be honest, but you also don't want the child to be confused and alarmed. It was enough to live with a stranger in the basement and the fear of being caught. Many of these children had to grow up way too quickly.